Genesis 47:19

The Scriptures 2009

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and let us and our land be servants of Pharaoh. And give us seed, and let us live and not die, and let the land not lie waste.

Cross References

Genesis 41:36

And the food shall be for a store for the land for the seven years of scarcity of food which shall be in the land of Mitsrayim, and do not let the land be cut off by the scarcity of food.

Genesis 47:15

And when the silver was all spent in the land of Mitsrayim and in the land of Kena‛an, all the Mitsrites came to Yosĕph and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the silver is gone!”

Genesis 47:18

And when that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We do not hide from my master that our silver is all spent, and my master also has the livestock we owned. There has not been left any before my master but our bodies and our lands.

Genesis 47:20

And Yosĕph bought the entire land of Mitsrayim for Pharaoh, because every man of the Mitsrites sold his field, because the scarcity of food was severe upon them. And the land came to be Pharaoh’s.

Job 2:4

And Satan answered יהוה and said, “Skin for skin, and all that a man has he would give for his life!

Lamentations 1:11

All her people are sighing, seeking bread. They have given their precious matters For food, to bring back life. “See, O יהוה, and look, For I have become despised.”

Lamentations 5:6

To Mitsrayim we have given a hand; To Ashshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:9

With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Matthew 16:26

“For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?